Kissoon and APNU/AFC’s “hands-wash-hands” gimmickry in supporting and promoting illegality is…
Freddie’s latest and greatest con
– S/News condemnation of Kissoon’s UG termination hypocritical charade
FREDDIE Kissoon’s recently-terminated contract with the University of Guyana was illegal and therefore voided by this very illegality. The regulations perttaining to the contract renewal of academic staff seeking re-employment is clear:  The UG Council must endorse such contracts.
However, then Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Lawrence Carrington, reportedly made a unilateral decision to renew Kissoon’s contract, which is in direct contravention of UG’s employment policies; so while Kissoon has a vested interest and thus his campaign to be reinstated on the university faculty can be understood, one cannot help but draw definitive conclusions on the agenda of the APNU/AFC team for their support for the continuation of an irregular and illegal arrangement, especially in view of the fact that the leadership of both the AFC and APNU comprise members of the legal fraternity.  Also, why was this illegal contract allowed in the first place?
Bearing in  mind that Kissoon can seek legal redress through the courts for his situation, holding the students of UG to ransom shows absolute callousness on the part of the opposition parties, which could provide Kissoon free legal service, as they have always done.
However, only those familiar with the dynamics of local politics and Kissoon’s peculiar brand of “honesty” and his unique path to wealth and fame acquisition can appreciate the game being played out, with the students being collateral damage.  Kissoon’s adult daughter, who attends Nations University, will certainly not be affected by this imbroglio.

The opposition collective have never cared about the “bodies” – literally and figuratively, that they have strewn in the wake of their quest for power.
This ‘hands-wash-hands’ between the opposition and Kissoon began a while ago.  Freddie knew that his last contract was due to end about the time of the onset of his age of retirement, which coincided with the elections season, so for the support of opposition elements when he was eventually sent packing from UG, he prostituted his pen and his soul and went on a scurrilous offensive against the PPP/C government, which he had opportunistically supported when he was reaping dividends as then Information Minister Moses Nagamootoo’s sidekick.
Then he rampaged because he was not provided immediate audience with then President Bharrat Jagdeo when he sought duty-free concession, which he thought was befitting of his self-inflated stature.
For what he felt was a slight by the President, who refused the honour of meeting Kissoon for matters of state, he went on a vendetta against the former President, with the intention of destroying his credibility and bringing his government down, which fit in perfectly with the opposition’s Guyana-styled ‘Arab spring’ and their clamour for a “velvet revolution.”
For someone who talks about “corrupt” practices he visualizes in others as though he is the voice of the nation’s conscience, let us examine his track record.
As a student he is on record for stealing books (and who knows what else).  He went to Canada as an adult who should know better but he allegedly continued this practice (habit?).
He entitled himself as ‘doctor’ when he did not qualify, until he was publicly exposed.
While living in luxury at his mother-in-law’s home he constantly lamented in his columns that he could not afford to build his own home, when even single mothers were building their own homes through the Government’s housing programme and even his current sidekick, Mark Benschop, who is a worse thorn in the PPP/C government’s side, was allotted a house lot that he had applied for.
But Freddie has illusions of grandeur and great ambition, so he continued his tales of woe until a group of  businessmen (allegedly) built him a house in one of the most upscale localities that surpasses ‘Pradvoville 1 and 11’, that with a lecturer’s salary, yet he talks about corruption.
Then he lamented about his vehicle when he wanted to acquire another one for a family member, so his public lamentation elicited another gift of an expensive vehicle.
Now Freddie, unlike many persons who contributed to national development by working hard all their lives, would be drawing a princely pension, while simultaneously collecting his hefty cheque from ‘Kaieteur News’; but his greed knows no limits.
Glenn Lall wrote in a publishers’ note in Kaieteur News of 31st January, 2012: “If it is that he (Freddie) is saying that he writes for free… then he would be misleading the nation.  He is paid handsomely…His being poor is far from the truth.  I have repeatedly warned him about using his column to mislead the public.”
The Council has unanimously agreed to address the illegality of Kissoon’s contract by terminating his services, especially in view of the fact that it does not see any merit in retaining Kissoon due to his lack of academic performance as a lecturer at the nation’s primary tertiary education institution.
Kissoon has held a Lecturer 11 position after 26 years at UG, with him not once producing an academic paper, which is a requirement of UG, as it is in universities worldwide.
The UG Council of 20 does not consist only of government representatives, but also of staff from the various university arms and technical staff from various bodies.
Stabroek News also terminated Kissoon, so on what grounds is that media house supporting Kissoon’s position?  Their current stance is their habitual support of anti-government elements, regardless of the illegalities or immoralities of such support or incidents.